The Silence of Empire

Imperialism and India

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20045049
AutoresJon Wilson (0000-0002-0398-8259, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Páginas218-241
Fecha de publicación2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaLanguages of Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137312891_10
OpenAlexW2483660221
ISBN9781137312891
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas18

When Charles, Marquess Cornwallis, died in 1806, British politicians were not certain what his life should be commemorated for. He died within months of William Pitt and Admiral Nelson, and, like them, had once been celebrated in the idiom of martial heroism, when his troops defeated Tipu Sultan at Seringapatam in 1792.1 But in 1806, in his second term as Governor-General, dying on the way to negotiate peace with Maratha states, Cornwallis was seen more as an administrator and diplomat than a soldier. He was no longer a great military leader, nor was he a state-builder, an orator or a defender of the people.2 He had become, to use the word with which Britons criticised the practitioners of empire a century later, a bureaucrat

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